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its so important to get the snare and the kick in the center of your stereo image with any type of micing technique. here is a real easy way to do it. when placing the mics imagin a straight line that travels straight throught the center of the front head of the kick drum and the center of the snare. that line is your center line (assuming you want your kick and snare in the middle in reality neither is actualy in the middle. the snare is a little right and the kick is a little left. but we can talk about that later.) now travel down the line to the point that is exactly halfway between the kick and snare. from there imagin a line that intersects through the first line perpendicularly. now we have x and a y axis. the orginal line we will call x, and the new line y. line y is where what we will use as a guide of where to place mics. now if you travel out on the line y in oppisite dirrections and equal lengths you can place the mics anywhere and the snare and kick will allways be in the center of the image. now of course there are phasing issue that will dictate where the best points along the y axis are to place mics but you never have to worry about where the kick and snare are. they will always be in the middle. remerber to that the mics can be moved up or down but they need to be at the same hieght for this to work.
now i just place mics tell i like the way they sound but when i started out that saved me a bunch of headache time dealing with phase issues.
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